Dragon Age: Inquisition debuts at number one on the
GfK Chart-Track chart of the 30 bestselling games in the U.K. for the week
ending November 22nd.
Far Cry 4 enters the chart at number two while last
week's top-selling
Warlords of Draenor WoW expansion drops to number
five. On the
all-prices console chart Grand Theft Auto V jumps back to number one
from the #32 spot following its next-gen release. Far Cry 4 debuts at number two
and the new Dragon Age joins at number five. Here's their full write-up, which
says GTA5 is now the U.K.'s all-time bestselling game:
This week sees the
return of Rockstar and Take 2 to No1 thanks to the Gen 8 Tuesday release of ‘GTA
V’.
Even before this week the 360/PS3 versions of this game held the record for
highest-grossing game in a week (£94m total UK estimate – week 38, 2013) and
also the all-time UK revenue record, reached after just 28 weeks to overtake
‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’. In terms of all time units ‘GTA V’ was right behind
‘Black Ops’, so much so that just the Tuesday sales of ‘GTA V’ on PS4/XO were
enough to also claim the all-time unit sales record in the UK.
The other big event launch from Tuesday was Ubisoft’s multi-format ‘Far Cry 4’,
the first in the series to launch outside of the traditional Friday launch day.
The original ‘Far Cry’ launched as a PC-only game in 2004 and the series has
been growing in sales success with each iteration, with ‘Far Cry 2’ launched in
2008 (360/PS3/PC) and ‘Far Cry 3’ arriving in 2012 (360/PS3/PC). ‘Far Cry 4’ is
by far the most successful in terms of week1 sales, which bodes well for the Q4
sales season. Activision’s ‘Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’ (-41%) drops to No3
after 2 weeks at the top, followed at No4 by non-mover ‘FIFA 15’ from EA (+25%).
There are more big new releases this week with a debut at No5 for EA’s ‘Dragon
Age: Inquisition’, selling almost exactly the same in week 1 as 2011’s ‘Dragon
Age II’.
2K/Take 2 climb 13 places to No7 thanks to the new Gen 8 versions of ‘WWE 2K15’
(+554%) and Warner climb 12 places to No11 thanks to the new Gen 7 versions of
‘Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor’ (+204%).